"At the heart of the bitter dispute lie competing visions of - TopicsExpress



          

"At the heart of the bitter dispute lie competing visions of “development,” with indigenous groups and some environmentalists rejecting Western models based on the industrial exploitation of natural resources. “For us as indigenous people who have lived here for millennia, it is not about having a big apartment with a plasma flat-screen TV,” Mauricio Paqui, CONAIE director for territory, natural resources and development, told GlobalPost. “Development means nothing to us if it doesn’t protect the forests where our people have always lived, or allow us to continue to have clean water, forests and air.”" pulitzercenter.org/reporting/ecuador-chinese-mine-indigenous-population-conaie-el-mirador-ecuacorriente-correa
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:37:53 +0000

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